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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is ambushed by two men and dies?

2. Randall Flagg orders Lloyd to what?

3. What is the boy Joe's real name?

4. What does Frannie find in her journal that scares her and makes her wonder about Harold?

5. When Stu was sick, how did Tom know what medicines to give him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it mean that Stu Redman is not sick like his friends in Arnette?

2. What does the group take to stop their dreams about the Dark Man?

3. What happens to Randall Flagg at the end of the novel?

4. How does Nick Andros help Tom Cullen?

5. Fran and Larry plan to what once they get to Harold's house?

6. Why can Flagg not remember who he is when he wakes up on an island at the end of the book?

7. What does Glen mean when he called Flagg "the last magician of rational thought"?

8. Why did Mother Abagail feel she had to go into the wilderness?

9. Do Larry and Ray survive the nuke?

10. Why is the Dark Man so afraid of Mother Abigail?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Mother Abagail’s self-perceived role in relationship to her god. How do the Free Zone survivors view her?

Essay Topic 2

What do the colors red and black symbolize? Give examples of how they appear in the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Harold Lauder is a morally ambivalent character who arrives at more than one spiritual crossroad in the novel. How do his values determine his choices? What is the consequence of the path he chooses to pursue?

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